The Embedded Microprocessor Benchmark Consortium (EEMBC) today announced
its strategy to develop a second-generation AndEBench, the industry
association’s method of benchmarking Android-enabled devices. EEMBC has
also announced the immediate availability of a new version of AndEBench
1.0 (1605) that allows users to interactively compare their scores to
other smartphones and tablets. AndEBench can be downloaded for free from
GooglePlay™ and the Amazon™ Appstore for Android. While of great value
to processor, system, and software vendors, the easy-to-run AndEBench
tool also empowers end-users to validate and compare operations on their
phones or tablets, many of which vary considerably in performance.

For AndEBench 2.0, the consortium’s working group will focus on both
hardware- and platform-level tests. The hardware tests will include
algorithms and applications to stress CPU, GPU and memory sub-systems
performance. The platform tests will replicate the performance of
Android applications by using common services that many of these
applications use; these services include GUI rendering, XML parsing,
image operations, and cryptography.

The AndEBench working group is led by Ronen Zohar, Principal Engineer at
Intel Corporation. “While AndEBench 1.0 provides a way to measure the
basic performance of the CPU inside a tablet or smartphone, AndEBench
2.0 will introduce the ability to measure platform performance as seen
by the user, as well as providing the ability to report hardware
sub-component performance,” said Mr. Zohar. “Furthermore, the
collaborative effort of our working group members will ensure that
AndEBench 2.0 provides an easy to run, consortia-reviewed performance
test for mobile devices – critical to deliver data that can be used by
technology providers and customers to assess device performance.”

“Based on feedback from AndEBench users, our new interface makes it easy
to compare your device’s score to others. Our expanding database now
includes thousands of scores from a wide variety of smartphones and
tablets,” said Markus Levy, EEMBC’s president. The website, located at www.eembc.org/andebench/index.php,
highlights the top-performing, as well as most popular devices.

AndEBench source code and advanced features are available to members and
licensees. EEMBC encourages all vendors and manufacturers to join the
consortium’s working group to contribute to the definition and
development of AndEBench 2.0. To join the working group or gain access
to the source code for AndEBench, contact Markus
Levy for details.

About EEMBC

EEMBC, the Embedded Microprocessor Benchmark Consortium, develops
industry-standard benchmarks to test embedded processors and systems
such as smart phones and network firewall appliances. EEMBC’s benchmark
development work is supported by yearly member dues and license fees.

EEMBC, CoreMark, and BrowsingBench are registered trademarks of the
Embedded Microprocessor Benchmark Consortium.